‘I can’t believe they’re all gone’

THE last time neighbours saw Mary Keegan out and about, she was her usual happy, busy self, rushing around after two energetic boys and cracking jokes with mock exasperation.

She arrived at Barbara Tobin’s house a few minutes walk away at 5.50pm last Friday and the two mothers laughed as they tried to coax their young sons out of the attic.

“They’d play up there all day on the PlayStation if you let them,” said Barbara yesterday, remembering how Mary called out to her younger boy, six-year-old Andrew, that it was time to go home while Barbara urged her seven-year-old, Evan, to let his little pal go.